This is possibly the most bizarre illustration that Jeremy Holmes created for What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World. It is certainly in the top five, in a book that lends itself way too easily to bizarre illustration. It is one of those wordless cartoons that visually contains its own punchline, and if only the blogging reviewer who recently said my book contained very little humor (a review to which I seem to have lost the link) had read the illustrated version rather than the pictureless review copy, she might have given the book credit for at least one chuckle. There are days when I feel like a passenger in this balloon’s basket.